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On this week's Bullseye, Jesse sits down with improv legends TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi at the inaugural Chicago Podcast Festival to discuss their improv methods and why the love Chicago. But first, musician John Cale talks to Jesse about his time in the Velvet Underground, his life as a producer for some of the most influential musicians in history, and a new reissue of his album Fragments of a Rainy Season. Plus new music from Split Single, solo project of Jason Narducy. Show notes

TSOYA Classics: New York Stories (11-3-06)

First we talk with Roz Chast, long-time New Yorker cartoonist. Her cartoons have now been compiled into a stately tome called "Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006."
Then a chat with Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader. He talks about how he got the gig after Lorne Michaels came to see him perform in a Southern California backyard, and what it's like to be the new guy at one of television comedy's most revered institutions. He's TSOYA listener, by the way.